New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

PORTS AND MARITIME ADMINISTRATION REGULATION 2007 - REG 15

15 Wharfage charge--particulars to be furnished

(1) A person liable to pay a wharfage charge must, at such time as the relevant port authority requires, furnish to the relevant port authority the following particulars:

(a) the name and address of the person making the payment,

(b) the name of the vessel from or on to which the cargo has been or is to be discharged or loaded, and the site at which the discharge or loading took place or is to take place,

(c) a description of the cargo,

(d) the nature and number of the packages, cases or other receptacles in which the cargo is enclosed (whether or not those receptacles are carried in a container), and the identifying marks and numbers of those receptacles as shown on each bill of lading in respect of the cargo,

(e) if the cargo is carried in a container, the identifying marks and number on the container,

(f) the mass and volume (expressed in cubic metres or in kilolitres) of the cargo,

(g) the number of each bill of lading that is to be or has been issued in respect of the cargo,

(h) such other information with respect to payment of the wharfage charge as the relevant port authority reasonably requests.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) An officer of a relevant port authority may require the owner of any goods in respect of which a wharfage charge is payable:

(a) to produce to that officer any document in respect of a matter relevant to the payment of that charge, or

(b) to make those goods available for inspection by the officer.

(3) The owner of any goods who does not comply with any such requirement is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(4) Subclause (3) does not apply if the documents or goods, at the time their production or availability was required, were not in the owner's possession or under the owner's control.